Chongzhen refused to admit his mistake, and the chief assistant Zhou Yanru would not make a sound reminder.

I didn't see His Majesty being furious. At this time, I made a suggestion, which was to be irritated, and it would not be worth the loss.

Chen Yutai, the new top student in the subject, does not understand many principles of the officialdom, and he hurriedly said:

"Your Majesty, these rebels are divided into two groups. Wang Gongchang exploded again, because they created the purpose of causing greater chaos and mobilizing troops to Wang Gongchang to rescue the people."

"In this way, these people have already planned it?"

Chongzhen took advantage of the donkey and stood in the hall and walked two steps.

"Your Majesty, this group of rebels came to attack the imperial city for dozens of taels of silver!"

"What did you say?"

Chongzhen frowned and found that there was something else in this rebellion.

The top scholar Chen Yutai immediately told the full story he heard from Zhang Guangcan.

The great Ming official army was going to attack the imperial city for dozens of taels of silver?

Do this great deviant thing?

"Absurd! All excuses!"

Chongzhen was so angry that he threw his sleeves straight.

The Ming Dynasty had huge military expenditures. He increased the Liao salary for the first time in December last year to pay the salary to the soldiers under his command.

As a result, just a few months have passed, and a rebel actually came to the imperial city to make money?

It's just for the salary of dozens of taels.

Who would believe this?

The new top scorer Chen Yutai immediately raised his head:

"Your Majesty, all my words are true, and there is no false statement, and I also find it incredible."

"Shut up!"

Chongzhen couldn't help but stretch out his feet and kicked Chen Yutai on the shoulder.

He couldn't accept this conclusion!

Wouldn’t it be a wrong policy to say that it was an error in his increase in Liao pay?

Especially for this new top scorer, Chongzhen had great expectations, but now the rebels say whatever they say!

Is there a little brain to think about yourself?

But Chongzhen forgot that Huang Taiji also used two eunuchs to eavesdrop, which aggravated Chongzhen's suspicion towards Yuan Chonghuan and put him in prison!

The reason why this year's competition was delayed was because Chongzhen was not satisfied with the performance of court officials since he came to power.

The imperial court used the imperial examinations to select scholars and valued the senior talents in the Ming Dynasty, which was the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty.

All the important positions in the central and local governments were almost occupied by all Jinshis, and even the governors in various places with heavy troops were all from Jinshis.

During the years when Emperor Chongzhen was in power, he deeply felt that those Jinshi and Hanlin, who were experts in eight-legged essays, were mostly foolish people when dealing with actual military and political affairs.

He really wanted to select a group of capable talents from the Jinshi he personally took, and he personally asked for the question.

The palace examination is an exam chaired by the emperor himself. The emperor personally sets the questions, invigilates the exam, and personally marks the papers to determine the rankings. Therefore, the Jinshi all proudly claimed to be the disciples of the emperor.

Most of the emperors in the late Ming Dynasty had no interest in the government affairs, so the so-called chief examiner was only nominal.

Some emperors ritually exposed themselves in the examination hall, while others did not attend at all. All matters were left to the cabinet ministers to handle.

Only Emperor Chongzhen, who had to do everything himself, would come to the palace examination every time, and would seriously and directly investigate every part of the examination.

The palace examination time is short, and usually only one way to take the policy is to answer your opinions on some major policies to govern the country based on the "strategy questions" raised by the emperor.

This is equivalent to the "question" of the test questions usually comes out by the cabinet and then selected by the emperor.

Most of them are empty and unreal, and the tribute scholars also write some praises to write papers with empty words.

With a few exceptions, all tribute scholars who participated in the palace examination can get a "Jinshi", "Jinshi" or "Jinshi's origin".

Because of this tradition, the tributes who participated in the palace examination this time had already drawn two original "questions" from the cabinet through various relationships.

I wrote two empty articles in advance, and I planned to copy them during the palace examination and pass them.

Who knew that Emperor Chongzhen was not satisfied with the two "problems" he had planned in the cabinet this time, so he rewritten the problems one day in advance and quickly printed them.

There are five aspects in total.

First of all, he was extremely dissatisfied with the entire bureaucratic group.

In Chongzhen's view, the bureaucrats were extremely corrupt overall, with corrupt scholarship and incompetent, so they had to be thoroughly rectified.

But what methods can be used to revive the style of scholars and make the bureaucrats both diligent and honest, and have both moral integrity and talent, but he has no idea in his heart.

In addition to rectifying the style of scholars, the questions raised in the "State Question" also include resisting external troubles, eliminating civil strife, managing finances and hiring people in an extraordinary way.

Chongzhen positively expressed his views on each aspect of the problem.

Then point out the core of the problem and ask the tributes to provide solutions to the problem.

Regarding foreign troubles, he believed that the Jianzhou Jurchens were originally only a barbarian, with a narrow area and a sparse population.

But once an attack on this dynasty is unstoppable, it is incredible.

Regarding civil strife, he thought that thieves and natural disasters were mutually responsible and it was difficult to fundamentally solve the problem.

The finances Chongzhen talked about it in a more specific way, saying that bandits spread, military affairs were urgent, the national treasury was empty, and food and money were not continued.

The person who advises the proposal does not consider the overall situation of the country and always asks for tax exemption.

The people are the foundation of the country, so how could the court not be merciful?

But I have to care for the people and support the soldiers, but I don’t know what the strategy is to achieve both worlds?

No one gave an answer.

Finally, he specifically mentioned: There is no difference between high and low civil and military positions in the Tang and Song dynasties.

At the beginning of the country, people were not necessarily from the Academic School of Science and Technology, but now it has become an unbreakable regulation. This kind of bad rule that suppresses talents must be changed.

The tribute scholars have been devoted to the eight-legged essays all year round, and of course they cannot give any insights into these major national policies.

They only discovered under the emperor's surveillance that the question was completely different from what they had originally found out about spending money.

I was upset and had no thoughts at all, so I bit the bullet and deal with one of the papers.

However, Wu Weiye, who was originally the top scorer, had no way out, but instead became less nervous, answered questions calmly, and performed well.

But for this kind of loss, many tribute scholars who spent money can only eat coptis chinensis by mute.

But who is Chen Yutai? His money is not wasted and his relationship is strong.

Even if Chongzhen changed the problem overnight, the chief assistant Zhou Yanru could know it and make people prepare sufficiently.

The Ming Dynasty emphasized the imperial examinations especially, and the imperial examinations only focused on eight-part essays, which guided a large number of scholars to read the scriptures and make arts for life, and their minds were empty except for the dogmas of nature, morality and reason of Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism.

This led to bureaucrats and scholars at all levels in the Ming Dynasty who only talked about the truth and had very little political, economic and military talents.

The new top scorer Chen Yutai never thought that the emperor would be so furious, but at this time he was strong and still spoke:

"There is no lies in my opinion. Adding Liao pay will only make people live in poverty. The soldiers' appetites are getting bigger and bigger. Your Majesty should be polite to the people and not increase taxes."

He was beaten by the rebels and made him choose to shut up and dare not reason.

But Chen Yutai dared to reason in front of the emperor!

As a minister, especially a loyal minister, you should dare to give advice in the emperor's anger!

Chen Yutai felt that he was the embodiment of justice at this time. The more he advised the emperor, the more he became, the more he could show that he was a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty!
Chapter completed!